Literary Theory Criticism category: 45208 books
Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories
Anglo-Italian Transactions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and...
Differentials
Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
A new collection of essays from a distinguished critic of contemporary poetry.
Marjorie Perloff is one of the foremost critics of contemporary American poetry writing today. Her works are credited by many with creating and sustaining new critical interest not only in the work of major modernist...
Modernist Fraud
Hoax, Parody, Deception
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
Focusing on literature and visual art in the years 1910-1935, Modernist Fraud begins with the omnipresent accusations that modernism was not art at all, but rather an effort to pass off patently absurd works as great art. These assertions, common in the time's journalism, are used to understand the...
And the View from the Shore
Literary Traditions of Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This groundbreaking study of a little-explored branch of American literature both chronicles and reinterprets the variety of patterns found within Hawaii�s pastoral and heroic literary traditions, and is unprecedented in its scope and theme. As a literary history, it covers two centuries of Hawaii�s...
A New Heartland
Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Modernity and urbanity have long been considered mutually sustaining forces in early twentieth-century America. But has the dominance of the urban imaginary obscured the importance of the rural? How have women, in particular, appropriated discourses and images of rurality to interrogate the problems...
Poetic Machinations
Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing both form and content with meaning. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination...
Intuitions in Literature, Technology, and Politics
Parabilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Using the idea of 'parability,'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramón Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Pynchon, Eco, Forché, Merrill, Weiner, Plath, Ashbery, and Eigner.
The Wallflower Avant-Garde
Modernism, Sexuality, and Queer Ekphrasis
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Wallflower Avant-Garde highlights a strain of formalism visible in both modernist literature and contemporary queer studies, drawing attention to an aesthetic that is as quiet and quirky as it is queer. In studies of Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Richard Bruce Nugent, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery,...
Two Cultures?
The Significance of C. P. Snow
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
In this first annotated edition of F. R. Leavis' famous critique of C. P. Snow's influential argument about 'the two cultures', Stefan Collini reappraises both its literary tactics and its purpose as cultural criticism. The edition will enable new generations of readers to understand what was at stake...
Colson Whitehead
The Postracial Voice of Contemporary Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
From his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead has produced fiction that brilliantly blurs genre and cultural lines to demonstrate the universal angst and integral bonds shared by all Americans. By neglecting to mention a character’s racial heritage, Whitehead challenges the cultural...
by Andrew Michael Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Joseph Conrad is a key figure in modernist fiction, whose innovative work engages with many of the crucial philosophical, moral and political concerns of the twentieth century. This collection of major critical readings of his work is arranged according to the issues which each critic addresses, issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Cormac McCarthy's work is attracting an increasing number of scholars and critics from a range of disciplines within the humanities and beyond, from political philosophy to linguistics and from musicology to various branches of the sciences. Cormac McCarthy's Borders and Landscapes contributes to...
by E. Peacocke, Mo Malek
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the French Revolution. It features Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and literary periodicals featuring Byron and Horace Smith.
The Rhetoric of the Roman Fake
Latin Pseudepigrapha in Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Previous scholarship on classical pseudepigrapha has generally aimed at proving issues of attribution and dating of individual works, with little or no attention paid to the texts as literary artefacts. Instead, this book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated products of a literary culture in which...